Mānoa Strategic Plan: Defining our Destiny
The Mānoa Strategic Plan: Defining Our Destiny, 2002-2010 represents the hopes and dreams of many at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa who came forward to express their ideas on making the campus a more vibrant, engaged, and connected place to study, work, and interact. The plan contains the campus's vision statement, core commitments, strategic imperatives, and a set of key benchmark indicators to measure progress towards achievement of the vision.
The strategic planning process was initiated during the Fall of 2001 when world events served to remind us of the importance of community. The administration began a series of campuswide conversations about the future and the highest aspirations for Mānoa. A Listening Project was initiated which included meetings, forums, questionnaires, bulletin boards, and an interactive website for enhancing communications throughout the campus and community. Representatives from key governance groups were appointed to a steering committee and three working groups (academic affairs, physical environment and social, cultural & spiritual).
The Listening Project culminated in an unprecedented gathering on February 1, 2002 where more than 1,400 people participated in the Defining Our Destiny: Planning Workshop. Students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and members of the community came together to share their visions and ideas about how to improve the state's leading institution for higher learning. Deliberations with the steering committee, working groups, and other participants resulted in the plan.
The Mānoa planning effort was part of a larger systemwide strategic planning process involving all ten campuses of the University of Hawai'i. The plan was approved by the Board of Regents on November 22, 2002.
Updated October 26, 2006